Burmese villagers fled into Thailand as clashes erupted along border towns. Some 250 residents from Myanmar sought shelter as ...

He met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she visited Myanmar early last December, and honored Aung San Suu Kyi with a Nobel Prize ceremony at his monastery in January. Late last ...

At the presentation, the Chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Francis Sejested, called her "an outstanding example of the power of the powerless". For the Burmese people, Aung San Suu Kyi ...

Why should Trump help earthquake victims in Myanmar, formerly Burma? Ask, instead, why Myanmar is so important to China that ...

Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff who was known for his progressive stances on social ...

Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe won a Pulitzer Prize in 2023 for an investigative series ... In 2017, after Myanmar’s then-leader, the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, tired of the free press ...

Monks were part of the 1988 uprising that brought Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to prominence ... drums alongside Russian monks and chanting, “Peace and glory to the great country of Russia”.

But in 2009, the US administration under Barack Obama sent a message to the National League for Democracy (NLD), which at the time was under the leadership of now-imprisoned Nobel laureate Aung San ...

“In this spirit we call on the military to announce a full amnesty for detainees it has incarcerated since February 2021, including state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint.

Myanmar’s military junta has pardoned nearly 5,000 prisoners as part of an annual new year’s amnesty, but there are no indications that prominent political prisoners like ousted leader Aung San Suu ...